Anatomía de un instante by Javier Cercas will be published by Bloomsbury
World English language rights in The Anatomy of a Moment (Anatomía de un instante) by Javier Cercas, which has sold more than 150,000 copies in Spain, have been acquired by Bloomsbury from the Spanish literay agency Carmen Balcells.
Javier Cercas, who is also the author of Soldiers of Salamis (winner of the 2004 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), tells in this new book the story of one of the most important moments of Spanish Contemporary History, the attempted coup in the Spanish Parliament, which took place on 1981, when Lieutenant-Colonel Tejero burst into the Spanish Parliament firing his gun.
Bloomsbury will launch The Anatomy of a Moment on the 30th anniversary of the attempted coup on 23rd February 2011.